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April 2, 2010 HAPPY SPRING! New show listed.... Thursday April 22 at the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, QC. The evening will be an Earth Day event... more details soon! Love, Ana March 4, 2010 The Kindness of Years... is the name of my new album!!! The should be in my hands by next week and if we are lucky (cross your fingers) there will be copies available at the GCTC show on March 14th.... Formal CD release will be planned very soon... Big hugs, Ana December 30, 2009 A New Year.... 2010 is creeping up on me... I can hardly believe we're through another year. I'm starting to reflect on it and it seems it was a big one. The biggest news lately is that I am now the General Manager for the Ottawa Folk Festival. I am so happy to be a part of the Festival that I love so much in a new capacity. I will still be releasing my new album in 2010 and performing when I can ;) Babes for Breasts tour was amazing this year. We raised just about $11,000 which brings our total to $46,264.64 since touring began in 2007. Thanks to the outstanding efforts of Amanda Rheaume, the amazing BFB Sponsors, the Babes, the great charities and speakers, not to mention our awesome friends, families and fans we have had another successful year. We are small but mighty and will continue to do what we can to fight breast cancer and help those affected by it. The Album... I know, I have been promising you one for so long! Well it's getting there. I swear. The record is mastered and Amy Campbell is working on the album art with James Looker's beautiful photography. All we have to do is assemble it... which takes a little time. :) As soon as it's done I will let you know! Thank you to everyone for your support and love through this entire year of growth, fun and music. I can't wait 'til next year! With love, Ana
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Sept 1, 2009 BFB, OCFF, OFF! With all the amazing things going on I have barely had time to say hello... so hello! I had an incredible weekend at the Ottawa Folk Festival both performing, emceeing and as Garden Coordinator. What a weekend! I had the chance to meet and perform with Bruce Cockburn, Steven Page and Joel Plaskett. Yes, it was amazing - definitely the most significant musical experience to date. I also had the chance to hang out with Bruce here and there - what an intelligent and fascinating person. Check out the MEDIA section for the write up on the show. BFB is gearing up! We are doing our first shows in St. John's NL followed by the Ottawa and Pembroke shows. Check out my TOUR section for dates that I am on, but I have taken a bit more of an organizational role and so check the BFB website for full tour dates. I have also started a short term contract working for the OCFF as their Conference Coordinator. I just started today and I am so excited to be working with such great people and for such a cool organization. I'll see you guys at the OCFF in October! Oh and the record! We are about to master with David Cain here in Ottawa. SO THRILLING! I am so proud of this album, mostly due to the amazing producing and engineering skills of Ross Murray. More soon - lots of love, Ana June 1, 2009 Too much of a good thing Between FB, Myspace, Mailing lists, Twitter and the rest I seem to have lost my website devotion! Sorry peeps. I promise to be better. That includes plans to make a new fancy website, a new fancy record and more new fancy things :) Updates... I've been working at the Ottawa Folk Festival lately... after playing there for so many years they've recruited me to run some things. I am the Gardening Coordinator for this year's festival, whose theme happens to be DIG YOUR ROOTS. There will be a tonne of gardening stuff - check out the Facebook group if you have it: search under: Ottawa Folk Festival - Gardening on FB! I've also been doing work with the Hearing Foundation: www.ihearya.org A really cool project telling high school students about safe listening levels and how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Check out the site. If you are around Ottawa tomorrow night, come to the National Arts Centre's Fourth stage for a night of amazing singer/songwriters. Bluebird North - Where Writers Sing and Tell - is an evening of song and stories from some of Canada's top songwriters. Lynn Miles, Eddie Schwartz, Kellylee Evans and Peter Katz will be performing in a songcircle. Show starts at 7:30. Doors at 7pm. Get tickets at the box office or at ticketmaster! Lastly, we are starting the mixing of the new album that I have been working on with Ross Murray. I am very excited as Ross did an amazing job producing, making my music better than I thought it could be. I'll keep you posted... xo Ana March 27, 2009 I'm Back! Well, well, well. Funny thing that happens when your PC goes offline and you don't fix it because you have a new mac but the mac doesn't have your web update software.. you don't update your website. SORRY everyone, it's been nuts. BFB tour was a great success and we are planning next year already. We started off 2009 with an intimate house concert in Ottawa at BOBCAT House Concerts, featuring Amanda Rheaume, Rhonda Stakich, Janine Stoll and myself. Almost finished tracking another album.. this time with the amazing Ross Murray, who is also included in my new band line-up! We debuted the new sound on Thursday March 12th at my latest concert presented by the Embassy of Japan. Next show? Look for me at Bluesfest 2009! A little review of last year.... 2008 Projects I Was a Part of: -The Japanese community made an EP of a few Japanese folk songs as well as an original composition written by some of the members of the Ottawa Japanese community. It's called Ottawa ONDO and you can get a copy through me - drop me an email. -I also sang back up on another cultural-flavoured project, "Expect the World" by Chairman George. The Chairman regularly tours China and did so during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. -Other back up vocal work in '08 included singing on the awesome and passionate Laurent Bourque's album, What we Talk About. I'm starting work on a new website which is very exciting... I'll keep you posted. xo Ana September 17, 2008 Is that today's date? There is SOOO much going on in Ana Miura/Babes for Breasts camp that I don't know what day it is :) Check TOUR for details on the BFB shows for the whole tour. NEW photos in the Gallery section! www.babesforbreasts.com for more details! We've got a whole tonne cookin' these days including some Japanese recordings, more Ana songs and touring! xoAna
Monday July 7th, 2008 Amazing what happens when the PC goes down and I switch to Mac. The internet silence has broken! :) I am back online. Had a bunch of computer issues which are now fixed thanks to my brother. Hooray! There is A LOT going on... I'm finishing up a 6-song ep/teaser for my appearance at Bluesfest this year (see TOUR section), BFB is off to a wild start with bookings (tour section) and I just returned from a tour in Central America (you know where to look). I'm off to Toronto right now to attend the SongWorks songwriting workshop as a part of the Songwriters Association of Canada! What a summer already.. If you would like to help with fundraising for the BFB 2008 Tour, please let me know! ana@babesforbreasts.com . Hugs, Ana
Saturday March 8th, 2008 Tour, tour and more Tour.. Hi Everyone... Sorry for the radio silence. It took the nice people at a nice computer shop a month to figure out they couldn't fix my computer. There are new shows listed in the TOUR section including another Ottawa show - Saturday April 26th at The Gallery in Ecclesiax Church which is on Monk at 5th in the Glebe. THIS SHOW WILL BE RECORDED LIVE!!! Copies of a selection of the tunes will be available, pre-sold at the show. You know what sounds cool? When a live recording sounds like there are people in the room, hee hee. So....Come one, come all. More details soon....Spring is near... Speaksoon... ana Wednesday January 2, 2008 NEXT OTTAWA SHOW! Saturday January 19th Library & Archives in Ottawa
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SONGS This is going to be a super fun show with some of my favourite songwriters. It's going to be an intimate showcase where I will be humbled by the tunes everyone will share. Details for tickets and stuff in the TOUR section! Friday October 26, 2007 What a month this has been! I am just now recovering from all the travels... USA, BFB, etc. Winter will be a slow down time for me - I will be taking time to work on my album and do some shows with Amos. So don't fear if you don't hear from me for awhile, I'm around. xo ana
Tuesday September 25, 2007 October is breast cancer awareness month! The Babes are going out in FORCE to Alberta cities, Kingston, ON and Ottawa, ON! Come out to any of our shows and show your support to the Babes!!! Check the TOUR section for details.. xo ana Friday September 14, 2007 TOUR TOUR TOUR is going on! Check the TOUR section for usa dates and BFB dates in Alberta!!! The BFB Official website is up! xo ana
Thursday August 23, 2007 Hey Everyone, It's been a busy summer.... thanks to all those who came out to the shows (Amos or Ana)... I will be in Sault Ste-Marie and Sudbury this weekend if you're around (check the TOUR section). The album is half done! Round two in September.. BFB is also in full swing... dates galore! we're coming to Alberta in October! Check us out!!! TOUR section for more details.. xo Ana
Saturday July 14, 2007 Hey everyone.. had a great time at bluesfest! Thank you for coming out :) If you like indie rock, come see the side project I'm in - Amos the transparent (.com)at Bluesfest today- 3:30pm at the River stage! I'm working on new BFB dates too.. we need some help with Alberta peeps! xo Ana Friday June 29, 2007 Festivals and more northern Ontario! Amanda Rheaume and I had a blast going up to Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie! I've been invited to showcase at the Mid-Point Music Festival! Very excited! Thursday June 21, 2007 Babes for Breasts! BFB this weekend! Friday June 22nd in Montreal at The Yellow Door and Saturday June 23rd in New York City at Caffe Vivaldi!!! Please take a second and drop an email to anyone you think might like to come.... I'd really, really appreciate it! For more details, see TOUR section.... Also I received an HONOURABLE MENTION for the 2007 Telluride Troubadour Songwriting competition! There were over 650 entrants and I made the top 30 for "He Swallows Whiskey"!!! See you all this weekend! Ana Tuesday June 12th Reeeee cord I write to you from the studio... Yes, the studio. I am currently recording the next album!!! Yay! I can't tell y'all how excited I am. Doing it with Jason Fee engineering and Dave Golden producing.. we've had loads of fun already with Stu Watkins, Jeff Asselin, Jeff Gleeson and Dobro Dan (Deslauriers) with more guests to come... Of course, I'll keep you all posted as much as I can. Otherwise... I have a bunch of shows coming up - some BFB ones in MTL and NYC.. come one, come all. xo Ana
Thursday May 17, 2007 Well, Well It has been quite awhile since I last posted.... Things have been crazy busy and crazy great! I have officially graduated university with a bachelor of arts in psychology (honours). So now I can rock out full time! BFB 3 - going to MTL and NYC. With many thanks to Preston Catalogue for their continued sponsorship of the event. www.prestoncatalogue.com - whomever said Ottawa was boring and without style is WRONG. I have also had the please to be involved with the Ottawa Asian Heritage Month Society - they are putting on some FANTASTIC events - please attend if you can! www.asianheritagemonth.net I know many have been asking... we're in pre-production for my next album... :) SHOWS ... Burnstown, WestFest, Bluesfest, NYC, Montreal etc. etc. check it out! much love ana
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Monday April 2,
2007 Thanks :) Quick note of gratitude to all those who came out to the Blacksheep. It was wonderful to have all of you there! The Sakura Concert this past Thursday at the NAC 4th stage sponsored by the Embassy of Japan was an incredible experience for me. Learning to sing in Japanese and performing on such an amazing stage for a warm and inviting audience was wonderful. Many thanks to Minister Tarahara, Toshi Yonehara, Kazuo Tsukada and Rebecca Benoit for all their hard work to make such a beautiful and successful event. We are currently in pre-production for the new album...recording starts in May! I'm saving my pennies and asking people for theirs too :) I am also in the midst of planning the next Babes for Breasts in the USA! The Babes are super pumped - Dates are in end of June; check the tour section and let people in the areas know!! :)Ana |
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Monday March 5,
2007 CMW, Blacksheep, iTUNES usa For Toronto peeps, Thursday night at midnight I'm playing at the Art Bar club for Canadian Music Week! This is a big industry night and I'd love as much support as I can get!! St. Paddy's day is ON at the Blacksheep Inn in Wakefield, Qc - Saturday march 17th. It's only about a 20 minute drive from Ottawa. I'll be playing with the full band!!! USA peeps - I am now on iTunes for USA customers! Am working on the Canadian side of things.... Link to iTUNES USA much love... stay warm to those in Ottawa! ana |
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Thursday January 8, 2007 BLACKSHEEP SHOW NEW DATE Hey everyone, Wanted to let you know the Black Sheep Inn show IS CHANGED to Saturday March 17th - St. Paddy's day. This will be a non-Irish music event, just regular tunes with awesome peeps. Joining me and my FULL BAND! Also playing will be Royal Wood - amazing guy you MUST see; and good friend David Gaudet. He's been doing his own tunes which are unique - I've always been a fan of Dave... :) speaksoon ana |
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Friday January
19, 2007 SECOND OTTAWA SHOW ADDED I'm thrilled to say that we've had to add a second Ottawa show. Saturday Jan 27th at Rasputin's there will be a 1pm matinee show as well as an 8pm show! If you live in Nepean, there is an article in Nepean This Week about BFB. A copy is in the Media section. If you live in Kanata, last week the Kanata Kourier ran a story. If anyone has a copy, please pass it along as I didn't get one! RADIO - All the girls are doing a bunch of radio spots for BFB. Check TOUR section for details, as well as BFB's myspace. Hooray! Ana |
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Monday January
8, 2007 What you can do to Help BFB I've gotten a few emails from people asking what they can do to help. Something very basic is to just forward the email or this poster to all their friends and family! Check out: www.myspace.com/babesforbreasts ! Speaksoon, Ana |
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Sunday January 7, 2007 Person to Watch Quick note to those living in Ottawa and the surrounding areas - I've been chosen as one of the "People to Watch" for 2007. Check out the front page of today's Ottawa Citizen newspaper for pics and articles! Many thanks to Lynn Saxberg for such a lovely article. Speaksoon, Ana |
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Wednesday January 3, 2007 Babes For Breasts! I know last month was Christmas and Hanukah, but this month is my month for giving! Myself and 4 other lovely ladies that is... I'm putting on Babes for Breasts again this year and am very excited to tell you that we're touring it! Dates are in the TOUR section, including Pembroke, Ottawa, Perth, Brockville and Toronto (we also have a date open for a living room show - email me if you want to host one!). What do we need from you? Well, first of all tell everyone you know! Second, if you are someone who has a little extra financially, we're looking for tour support so that a) we don't go broke and b) we can give as much money as possible to the cause! What's the cause? I'm working with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation (ORCF) in the development of a new support group called "Well Women" for those ladies who have fought and beaten breast cancer and are now seeking to regain their lives after regaining their health. It would be a first for this city! These women need help and support for the challenges that are ahead of them. If you think you can help - monetarily or any other way, please email me: ana@anamiura.com and let me know. much love, peace and happiness in the New Year, Ana
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